Get Started

web.py 0.38 is the latest released version of web.py. You can install it by running:

pip install web.py

Or to get the latest development version from git:

git clone git://github.com/webpy/webpy.git
ln -s `pwd`/webpy/web .

Who uses web.py?

web.py was originally published while Aaron Swartz worked at reddit.com, where the site used it as it grew to become one of the top 1000 sites according to Alexa and served millions of daily page views. "It's the anti-framework framework. web.py doesn't get in your way," explained founder Steve Huffman. (The site was rewritten using other tools after being acquired by Condé Nast.)

Make History, a project of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, is powered by web.py on top of Google App Engine. On September 11, 2009, it received nearly 200,000 visitors. "It's my first time working with web.py and basically with Python," noted its developer. "web.py was awesome."

Oyster.com, a website that reviews and photographs hotels, uses web.py for the entire site. They note that "web.py gives us the control we need for a large-scale website". As of Jan 2013, Oyster.com renders about 230,000 pages per day.

local.ch, the official online Telephone Directory for Switzerland - using web.py in a backend service for tracking expired content - code open-sourced as urldammit.

archivd.com, a web application for collaborative research and archiving, is built on web.py.

"Guido [van Rossum, creator of Python], you'll probably find that web.py best suits your style. ... If you don't like it, I can't imagine which of the other dozens of frameworks out there you would like." — Phillip J. Eby, creator of the Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) #